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Ladenson, E., Proust’s Lesbianism (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1999).

Lejeune, P., ‘Écriture et sexualité’, Europe, 49 (1971), 113–43.

Lucey, M., Never Say ‘I’: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide and Proust (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006).

Sprinker, M., History and Ideology: ‘A la recherche du temps perdu’ and the Third French Republic (Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Rivers, J. E., Proust and the Art of Love: The Aesthetics of Sexuality in the Life, Times and Art of Marcel Proust (New York: Columbia University Press, 1981).

Terdiman, R., The Dialectics of Isolation: Self and Society in the French Novel from the Realists to Proust (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1976).

Wilson, E., Sexuality and the Reading Encounter: Identity and Desire in Proust, Duras, Tournier and Cixous (Oxford University Press, 1996).

Critical reception and genetic criticism

Bowie, M., ‘Barthes on Proust’, The Yale Journal of Criticism, 14 (2001), 513–18.

Cano, C. M., Proust’s Deadline (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006).

Hodson, L., ed., Marcel Proust: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge, 1989).

Pugh, A., The Birth of ‘A la recherche du temps perdu’ (Lexington, KY: French Forum Publishers, 1987).

Pugh, A., The Growth of ‘A la recherche du temps perdu’: A Chronological Examination of Proust’s Manuscripts from 1909 to 1914, 2 vols. (University of Toronto Press, 2004).

Schmid, M., ‘The Birth and Development of A la recherche du temps perdu’, in R. Bales, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Proust (Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 58–73.

Winton (Finch), A., Proust’s Additions: The Making of ‘A la recherche du temps perdu’, 2 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 1977).

Edited volumes

Benhaïm, A., ed., The Strange M. Proust (Oxford: Legenda, 2009).

Bryden, M. and M. Topping, eds, Beckett’s Proust/Deleuze’s Proust (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Kotin, A. and K. Kolb, eds, Proust in Perspective: Visions and Revisions (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2002).

Watt, A. A., ed., Le Temps retrouvé Eighty Years After/80 ans après: Critical Essays/Essais critiques (Bern: Peter Lang, 2009).

In French

Place of publication is Paris unless stated otherwise.

Biography

Albaret, C., Monsieur Proust (Robert Laffont, 1973).

Tadié, J.-Y., Marcel Proust: Biographie (Gallimard, 1996).

Getting started/reference works

Bouillaguet, A. and B. G. Rogers, eds, Dictionnaire Marcel Proust (Honoré Champion, 2004).

Compagnon, A., ‘La Recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust’, in Pierre Nora, ed., Les Lieux de mémoire [1984–92], ‘Quarto’ edition, 3 vols., III ‘Les Frances’ (Gallimard, 1997), pp. 3835–69.

Laget, T., L’ABCdaire de Proust (Flammarion, 1998).

Early studies and landmarks

Barthes, R., ‘Proust et les noms’, in Le Degré zéro de l’écriture suivi de Nouveaux essais critiques (Seuil, 1972 [1967]), pp. 121–34.

Compagnon, A., Proust entre deux siècles (Seuil, 1989).

Deleuze, G., Proust et les signes (Presses Universitaires de France, 1964; 4th edn, rev. 1970).

Doubrovsky, S., La place de la madeleine: écriture et fantasme chez Proust (Mercure de France, 1974).

Kristeva, J., Le Temps sensible: Proust et l’expérience littéraire (Gallimard ‘Folio Essais’, 2000 [1994]).

Richard, J.-P., Proust et le monde sensible (Seuil, 1974).

General approaches

Tadié, J.-Y., Proust: le dossier (Belfond, 1983; various reprints).

Tadié, J.-Y., Proust: la cathédrale du temps (Gallimard ‘Découverte’, 1999).

Philosophy and fiction

Barthes, R., Le Plaisir du texte (Seuil, 1973).

Barthes, R., ‘Roland Barthes contre les idées reçues’ [1974], in Œuvres complètes, 3 vols., ed. Éric Marty (Seuil, 1994), III, pp. 70–4.

Carbone, M. and E. Sparvoli, eds, Proust et la philosophie aujourd’hui (Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2008).

Descombes, V., Proust: philosophie du roman (Minuit, 1987).

Simon, A., Proust ou le réel retrouvé (Presses Universitaires de France, 2000; new edition,